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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree feel when the note on the fridge makes her laugh?

2. What else does Tree realize in the vision?

3. What does M'Vy say is Dab's problem?

4. What does M'Vy insist will be the fastest way to get Dab help?

5. Who is Don?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tree's nightmare?

2. What does Tree learn from M'Vy about Dab's condition?

3. What does Tree see when she and M'Vy are transported back to the past together?

4. Describe Tree's discovery of Dab's death.

5. What happens when Miss Pricherd cleans Dab's room?

6. What is Tree and M'Vy's relationship like, at the end of the book?

7. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Dab's funeral?

8. What are Tree's feelings about Dab's sickness?

9. What prompts Tree to decide to leave home?

10. What makes Tree think of Dab when she is at home alone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", another book in which children are transported into another world through a special portal.

Essay Topic 2

Do you think Tree will continue to go back into the past -- and into her own childhood -- from the little room? Or was her trip back into the past just part of her growing up and becoming the person she is in the present?

Essay Topic 3

What does Tree get in return for the loss of her brother? Is she compensated, or does she simply lose him?

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